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Los Alamos researchers and supercomputers help interpret the latest LIGO findings

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Astrophysicist Chris Fryer was enjoying an evening with friends on Aug. 25, 2017, when he got the news of a gravitational-wave detection by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory.

Journal: Nature

Chemical treatment improves quantum dot lasers

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

One of the secrets to making tiny laser devices such as opthalmic surgery scalpels work even more efficiently is the use of tiny semiconductor particles, called quantum dots. In new research at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nanotech Team, the ~nanometer-sized dots are being doctored, or 'doped,' with additional electrons, a treatment that nudges the dots ever closer to producing the desired laser light with less stimulation and energy loss.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology

Sandia's Direct Numerical Simulations enhance combustion efficiency, reduces pollution

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers use Direct Numerical Simulations to enhance efficiency, reduce pollution in diesel engines.

Journal: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Painless microneedles extract fluid for wearable sensors for soldiers, athletes

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Microneedles are the first way to extract large volumes of pure interstitial fluid. This fluid can be used to track the physical conditions of athletes, soldiers, even diabetics but could also aid in diagnosing other diseases, including cancer.

Hunt is over for one of the 'top 50 most-wanted fungi'

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from several institutions including Los Alamos National Laboratory have characterized a sample of 'mystery' fungus collected in North Carolina and found its home in the fungal tree of life.

Journal: Mycologia
Funder: Michigan State University AgBioResearch, Western Illinois University, US Department of Energy's Office of Science, National Science Foundation, and others, US Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health

Four Los Alamos scientists named as 2017 Laboratory Fellows

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Four Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have been named 2017 Fellows: Donald Burton, Stephen Doorn, Manvendra Dubey, and Turab Lookman.

Sandia Labs wins 5 regional technology transfer awards

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories won five awards from the 2017 Federal Laboratory Consortium for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. The annual FLC awards program recognizes federal laboratories and their industry partners for outstanding technology transfer achievements.

Cleaning up subways: Sandia's 20-year mission to stop anthrax in its tracks

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories engineer Mark Tucker has spent much of the past 20 years thinking about incidents involving chemical or biological warfare agents, and the best ways to clean them up. Tucker's current project focuses on cleaning up a subway system after the release of a biological warfare agent such as anthrax.

Funder: Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency

Nanotechnology experts at Sandia create first terahertz-speed polarization optical switch

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has for the first time used optics rather than electronics to switch a nanometer-thick thin film device from completely dark to completely transparent, or light, at a speed of trillionths of a second.

Journal: Nature Photonics

Carlsten, Nguyen and Sheffield win Free-Electron Laser Prize

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

At an international science conference hosted recently in Santa Fe, N.M., Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Bruce Carlsten, Dinh Nguyen and Richard Sheffield were awarded the 2017 Free-Electron Laser (FEL) Prize.

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